Copyright and Related Rights in Music

The purpose of this final qualifying work is to study the legal regulation of copyright and related rights in music, the review of problems in this area, the causes of their occurrence, the search for solutions, and the study of practices in the form of disputes that have already arisen between composers, performers and other subjects of the author's rights. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to set the clear tasks. For this survey, it is important to analyze the procedure for the design of copyright and related rights, as well as the legal and regulatory framework for relations and judicial and other law enforcement practices in the field of copyright and related rights in the music industry. In particular, to achieve the goal, it is necessary to determine the essential conditions, content and characteristics of civil liability for violations of copyright and related rights in music, and the causes of the emergence of major problems in this area of relations. Graduation qualification work consists of an introduction, seven chapters, a conclusion and a list of sources and literature used. The first chapter describes the content of the fourth part of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, the second one deals with the notion of a musical work as an object of law, the third chapter is devoted to the object of related rights in music - a phonogram, then the author's and related rights to music in television and the Internet, and, finally, the court practice is being examined. The relevance of the topic under consideration lies in the fact that with the development of modern technologies, music works are the most vulnerable type of copyright objects.